Top Grossers: 9/1/17

[Kyle]

Rules: Guess the Friday through Sunday domestic gross (as reported in the actuals from Box Office Mojo) for the number one movie for the weekend of September 1-3. You get points based on the difference between your guess and the actual opening (whether its higher or lower). You don't have to guess a particular movie, just a dollar amount. You can not guess an amount that has already been guessed by someone for this week. Once you've made a guess, you can't change it. Guesses have to be submitted by midnight the Wednesday before the opening. Guesses must be rounded to the nearest million dollars. Results will be cumulative week to week for everyone that continues to play. If you miss a week, you can still play, but your score is 125% of the worst actual score awarded on the week you missed. If you miss two weeks in a row, you're out of the metagame, but still welcome to play the weekly game. The ongoing game will reset when there's only one player left.

Please feel free to discuss prospects and speculation- this is highly encouraged. But once you post up a guess, it cannot be changed.

I'll normally post this up on the Monday before the opening weekend, and will update the cumulative scores when the actuals are released (usually Tuesday afternoon).

Wide release movies opening this week include:
Tulip Fever
Rerelease of Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Ongoing Scores (Updated):
poorpete: 43
Kyle: 56
buckett: 61
Zen: 69
Zombie: 80


Guesses (in millions):
Kyle- 6
buckett- 7
Zen- 8
poorpete- 4
Zombie- 5

[Kyle]

Remember that this is just the Friday through Sunday- not the full holiday weekend.

My guess: $6 million.

[buckett]

What a shitshow of a movie weekend. I'll go 7, I guess

[poorpete]

Blegh. Best I can differentiate without going absurd is $4M. When's the next big film, Thanksgiving?

[Zen]

Is this seriously a HOLIDAY WEEKEND movie schedule?

$8 mil

[Kyle]

[Zombie]

5

[Kyle]

Thanks to Zombie for reminding me of this-- NEXT WEEK will be the start of the new season. I'm dividing the year into three seasons: January 1 through the weekend before Memorial Day; Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day Weekend; the weekend after Labor Day weekend through December 1. So starting next week, I will be tracking scores for Season 17:3 with everyone's scores staying at 0. Of course, I will also keep tracking the lifetime scores for as long as there are at least two players that keep playing each week. Once you skip two weeks in a row, you drop out of both the lifetime tracking and the tracking for that season.

I'll have all this worded better and in the rules for next week.

[Kyle]

The Lifetime scores have been updated with last week's results.

[Kyle]

Hitman's Bodyguard pulls in a startling $10,536,010 in the worst post 9/11 weekend ever!

This week's results:
Zen- 3
buckett- 4
Kyle- 5
Zombie- 6
poorpete- 7

Congrats Zen!

This weekend also marks the end of the second box office season. The results for this season are:

poorpete: 50
Kyle: 61
buckett: 65
Zen: 72
Zombie: 86

poorpete wins the season! Congrats!

[Zen]

If only it was scored like boxing I might have a chance...